In 1982 Drs. King and Petrakis published a study in the British
Medical Journal. They discovered that women who move their bowels once
or twice a week have four, yes, four, times the possibility of having
breast cancer than women who move their bowels once or twice a day. The
large intestine has 80% of our immune function tissue, and it is time to
examine another perspective on disease, because the major paradigm is
not working as well as most would like it to be.

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My brother, mother, father died of cancer, all having been under
the advice of the conventional routing. I went to a physician's
assistant soon after all those years of family agony and the PA told me
with a deprecating tone that I had very lumpy breast tissue. I was
appalled and asked, "Well, what can I do about it?" She had
walked away.

Ten years later I went to a "Health Expo" where I was
told that I had a cholesterol count of 200. I explained that I was a
vegetarian and that was impossible. They said, "No, you have a
cholesterol count of 200." We went back and forth, and finally my
denial disintegrated and I proclaimed, "OK, there will no longer be
dairy in my diet!"

I stopped eating all dairy and eggs, so there were virtually no
animal products on my plate and in less than three months, I had no more
breast lumps, my cholesterol went down to 137, and all my congestion
went away.

People come up to me and ask me if I ever cheat. I can't say
that I have never been to a potluck where there might be a lurking egg
or butter in a dish, though I eat the cleanest-looking plant-based food
around because there is nothing in my life that is so beautiful as
having empowered myself with knowledge to save my quality of life and my
life savings. I have so far removed myself from being a walking time
bomb with the accompanying fear that goes with that possible diagnosis
of doom and gloom. Everybody dies; it's the ease and grace that
count.

After I was told that I had a 137 cholesterol count; my naturopath
explained that my cholesterol was too low and that is a concern because
it also has some relation to having a propensity towards cancer.

I ate coconut butter. It is medium-chain saturated fat that has the
same immune-boosting factor as human mother's milk and has been
proved to prevent as well as heal Alzheimer's. I returned to the
physician's office to be told that I have the perfect ratio of HDL
to LDL with a cholesterol count of 180.

When you eat plants, you've already won the sweepstakes.
Plants have fiber that sweeps the tract clean. Animal products clog the
system and have an almost impossible task of really leaving the body
clean. Just ask 1 of the 10 most sought-after surgeons on this planet,
Dr. Shinya, inventor of the colonoscope and the snare cautery device. In
his book The Enzyme Factor, of which he sold 2 million copies, he states
that of all his patients, none have had a reoccurrence of cancer because
he will only work with people who do as he requests. He prescribes a
near-vegan diet and Kangen water (see www.kangenflower.com). And watch
Dr. Shinya.

Again, it bears repeating that Dr. Shinya in his over 40 years as a
gastroenterologist has never had a client have a return of cancer!

He purports that we are what we eat and we are what we don't
eliminate.

Finally we are taking our power back in the form of voting with our
dollars. Now, we realize that when we are united, collectively we are
powerful. Transferring our money to small local banks makes sense. As
illness is the number one cause for bankruptcy, the time has arrived to
take back our power in relation to health. Eating more locally, knowing
your farmer's practices, is imperative. Reading labels and dropping
prepackaged food that has corn or soy, canola, cottonseed oil, and
papaya is a given. Everything that has those ingredients is almost
guaranteed to be genetically modified, which is known to be a powerful
carcinogen, causing lesions in the stomachs of animals who eat that corn
and soy and thus transferring that disease factor to the humans who eat
a bit too high on the conventional food chain. Knowledge is power. Go
ahead, take your power back; the time is now. Boycott Monsatan, the
proud purveyor of Agent Orange, GMOs, Roundup, and DDT - oops! I meant
Monsanto ... or did I?

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